I was gutted when Villa weren’t relegated last season,woman’s intuition if you will.
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I agree the defensive line was far too high, we had the warning when City thrashed us, and the Leeds game despite winning we were too Cavalier.
I wanted them to go down too…came back to bite us
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Should’ve been but hawk eye wasn’t working
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I thought i was old.!!!. 
xG Villa 3.35 v 1.74 Liverpool
Understat has it as xG Villa 3.08 v 1.66 Liverpool
I don’t think anywhere have I put the boot into Joe Gomez. I just said selling two central defenders without bringing one in wasn’t sensible. I said it before the season started, because Matip is made of glass and his fitness can’t be relied on. Where is Matip now? On the treatment table as usual, that’s where. It’ a long season and there’ll be other injuries to our defenders, we need another one as cover.
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This confirms what a few of us have been saying. It was an embarrassing defeat and while Villa we’re well worth the win, seven goals is incredibly harsh.
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My Dad started taking me when we were in the second division… 
I’ll soon be entering my eighth decade.
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I agree but I’m already concerned by comments from players like Virgil that “we shouldn’t lose with the numbers we did and now it’s key to stick together and don’t let this happen again.”
https://twitter.com/LFC/status/1313041738676629504
I don’t want the players to have the attitude that this was somehow a freak result. That they were unlucky to lose at all. No, they weren’t. They may have been unlucky with some of the goals but the performance from so many of them was terrible. I am particularly focusing on Virgil because I feel he’s one of the players most in need of a wake up. They should not try and put this down to bad luck, anomalies, or any other excuse because the danger is that they won’t look hard enough at themselves.
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We can forget the score, go with the XG and it still needs an inquest.
I’m sure Klopp won’t allow any brushing it under the carpet, but there are a few things we really need to look at. At the top of the list is the space we are leaving on the right side of the pitch in Hendo’s absence.
At the end of the day with the standards we have set 2 goals should be enough to beat Villa, after all it was last season.
Have to remember the Man City loss last week isn’t too different, I think thats the context we need to take this in considering we would all expect them to be the closest challengers again.
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Good one 
Last season, and even the season before, a significant number of our wins were hard fought affairs in which our faith in the process and commitment to keep just doing the right things eventually paid off. I questioned earlier whether the lack of response to what was going wrong in the game is an almost inevitable flip side to that.
I’m sure they are related, but it’s a bit difference when it’s 0-0 or 0-1 etc. I’ve not seen us as open as we were yesterday under Klopp, it’s like we had zero structure in our game.
A lot of the times you mention we were slowly but surely, like a battering ram, monotonously breaking down a big heavy door piece by piece… We’d probe, we’d switch, we’d just keep this relentless pressure up and eventually find the breakthrough…
Last night we had a few chances but it was like a 5 aside game where each time attacks, scores or not but gets a chance at doing so… Bizzare to say the least.
I think there have been numerous games, even during our last 2 years of excellence, where we just couldn’t get the defensive side right and rather than address it just put our head our down and kept ploughing on. It is like the judgement was made that there wasn’t a systemic problem, just an isolated one so lets just keep doing what we’re doing and do it better and we’ll pull through. And with very rare exception we did.
I think what can lead to is bad judgement in understanding what is happening in a game. It leads you to see things that have to be addressed as just an isolated thing we need to make sure doesnt happen again
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I didn’t watch the game and haven’t seen the highlights but I’ve voted for Adrian and Gomez as man of the match.
Precisely what appears to be Van Dijk’s view. It worries me.